Thank you, Madam Chair.
Gentlemen, madam, welcome. Thank you for joining us.
I would like to start with a question for all the witnesses about safety.
I certainly heard your comments about the importance you place on audio and video recorders. However, my gut asks whether a voice and video recorder is going to help the TSB draw any conclusions on an unfortunate event that has already happened. I was rather looking to find out about the measures you plan to implement, or that Bill C-49 should implement, in order to prevent accidents.
As Mr. Ellis said, we know that most incidents are linked to human factors.
There are two major questions about the frequency with which the human factor is at play in accidents. First, there is the level of fatigue of locomotive operators. Then there are the repeated demands from the TSB pointing to the need to instal additional means of physical defence. This can mean alarms. or even technological mechanisms that can make a train stop when the driver has missed a warning he should have noticed. It seems repetitive.
In the major companies, what measures are in place, first to achieve better management of fatigue, and second to move towards these means of physical defence?
Perhaps, Mr. Ellis can start, but I invite everyone to respond.